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The Christmas Rat

135 pp. | Atheneum/Jackson | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83842-5 $$16.00
(2) 4-6 Eric is restless and mopey at the beginning of Christmas break, but a challenge presents itself in the form of an exterminator, Anjela Gabrail, who seems to have a mission to wage all-out war on a rat in Eric's basement. The mood is dark, intensified by the determined cheer of the season, and the writing is punchy and suspenseful as Eric joins Anje in the mission, and, eventually, tries to thwart it when his sympathies come to lie with the rat.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2000

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